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Okay, headline aside, I'm not going to try talking like a pirate for National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Sorry, Henchgirl, I just can't do it. But hey, I'll do the next best thing: finally post about Kenner's Pirate Batman VS. Pirate Two-Face action figure pack!
Kenner fanboy that I was from about ages five to fifteen, I always had a soft spot for this line of action figures. It was the first line since Toy Biz's DC Comics Superhero figures to do Batman characters from the comics, not movies or animated series. What's more, it took a Legends of the Dark Knight approach to figures from all sorts of different time periods and realities, thus making it logical to include all manner of accessories that you'd never normally see Batman use.
They released Buccaneer Batman, First Mate Robin, and Laughing Man Joker figures, presumably based upon (but in no way resembling) Chuck Dixon's Pirate Batman Elseworlds story from Detective Comics Annual #7. That story eventually got a sequel featuring Pirate Catwoman and Pirate Penguin (which can be read here), but they never got their own action figures. Conversely, Pirate Two-Face never made a comic appearance, but they gave him his own original figure complete with a trading card and bio:
( Character bio, plus my mad toy photographic skills behind the cut! )
Kenner fanboy that I was from about ages five to fifteen, I always had a soft spot for this line of action figures. It was the first line since Toy Biz's DC Comics Superhero figures to do Batman characters from the comics, not movies or animated series. What's more, it took a Legends of the Dark Knight approach to figures from all sorts of different time periods and realities, thus making it logical to include all manner of accessories that you'd never normally see Batman use.
They released Buccaneer Batman, First Mate Robin, and Laughing Man Joker figures, presumably based upon (but in no way resembling) Chuck Dixon's Pirate Batman Elseworlds story from Detective Comics Annual #7. That story eventually got a sequel featuring Pirate Catwoman and Pirate Penguin (which can be read here), but they never got their own action figures. Conversely, Pirate Two-Face never made a comic appearance, but they gave him his own original figure complete with a trading card and bio:
( Character bio, plus my mad toy photographic skills behind the cut! )
